The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-11-17

cotton WILL average q Dale 10 Cue dCle'
G. L. Moody, another old Charlotte
merchant, reports crops good. He has
twenty-one acres in cotton, from which
he will get eighteen bales. He has tit.
teen acres in corr from which he WILL
gather about three hundred bushels.
Hillsboro Recorder: Corn seems to
be greatly abundant in Orange county,
particularly in Ceder Grove Township.
We learn from one of his neighbors
that Mr.. VIM. H. Anderson in that
Township has already had two Corn
stockings and is not yet done gather
ing corn. The first shocking filled NJ:
AS. crib and he is nov bothering
about house-rood for the balance. We
also hear that our friend Jake Steward
is anxious to rent some more cribs to
put his Corn in. Good. Neighbors
we rejoice in your prosperity.
Salisbury Waterman: A young man
named Cartar, of this county, brought
to town a horse, last Saturday, to swap
off; but after trying the market all
day without a trade, during which
time he drank pretty freely, night
came on, and he took his horse in the
rear of the Boyden House and cut it's
throat and left it to die. Our infor-
mant saw the horse about 10 o'clock
that night, and he was dying. 1t is
a case for Judge Clark at his next sit
ting in our court unless the offender
should escape from the county.
High Point Enterprise: Hattie Davis,
colored, broke Jail at Statesville last
Sunday night by burning the facing of
the window of her cell, removing the
bars and then slididg down a rope
made of her blanket, ETC., hied away.
G.. A. Roper sustained a
heavy loss by fire at Lauringurg. The
Exchange says: "The ginhouse, con-
tanning two gins, cotton press, fifteen
bales of seed cotton and three thou
sand bushels of cotton seed was
burned. These facts ere as given us
by Mr.. G. A. Roper himself, who puts
his loss at So, 700, partly covered by
81, 200 insurance.
Goldsboro Argus: The Furniture
Factory which has just gotten to run
we'll, has a capacity of 100 bed
steads a day. All the appointments
are complete, and we can but express
the hope again that it will prove an
other encouragement to the manufac.
industries IN our midst-The
colored State normal school will soo
be ready for business in this city. The
principal, Prof. G.. N. Hunter, of Raj
than whom there is no more re-
fined, educated and courteous colored
man in the State, has arrived and is
his attention to getting every
thing in readiness,
Durham Recorder: Mr.. A. A. How
land is reaping the reward Of his ways.
He spent $l40, 900 in the building of
an inadequate system Of water works,
has been refused, when the ad-
dition of $4,000 or $4,000 would
have made the system adequate. In
his greed he killed the hen that was to
him a gold egg.-Betsie Geer,
an old colored woman, found a white
male infant in front of her door last
Sunday. Unable to find or learn my.
hing about it's parents, she has deci-
led to keep it. There was a heavy
frost Sunday morning, and she named
he little waif Frost"
Hickory Corozlnaon: Ephriam Ed
wards, of Indiana, landed in Newton
asst Friday. Meeting Miss Lenora
Johnson, he told her his name and
lomicile. They talked about two
hours, and called in Rev. DR.. J. G..
Clapp and were married. Mr. Edwards
IS a native of the county but has been
several years in Indiana. He was in
20 see his relatives about seven years
ago, and just before taking the train
% return his widowed eyes caught one
of the lovely Miss Johnson az
also hers did of him. He got her ad-
iross and commenced a c%orrespon-
1ence which led to their action last
Friday.
Statesville Landmark: Statesville's
cotton factory movement has taken
definite shape. Subscriptions to the
amount of $50, 600 have been secured,
according to the Landmark.-Lum.
Der for the buildings of the Statesville
Plow Factory is being delivered on the
5round.-Mr. R. S. Plott, of David
son township, worked rented land and
this year, As bushels of wheat,